 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!  Poems - Sida 240efter Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 277 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1799 - 686 sidor
...lowly bed. * For them no more the blazing hearth (hall burn, Orbufy houfewife ply her evening care : No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to ihare. * Oft did the harveft to the fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke : How... | |
 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 sidor
...lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth fhall burn, Or bufy houfewife ply her ev'ning care; No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envy'd kil's to fhare. 24 • Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 sidor
...the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 542 sidor
...them no more the blazing hearth (hall barn, Or bufy houfewifc pry her evening care : (Jo children r«n to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to fliarc. Oft did the han-ell to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the (tubborn glebe has broke !... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 sidor
...evening care : No children run to Hip their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kif$ to (hate. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield. Their furrow oft the ftuhborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their tçam afiela ! How bow'd the woods beneath... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 sidor
...evening care : No children run to Hip their fire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kifs to ifhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the 1'tubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 508 sidor
...lowly liedFor them no more the blazing hearth fhall burn, Or bufy houfewife ply her evening care : No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harvefl to their fickle yield. Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive... | |
 | Berquin (M., Arnaud) - 1805 - 294 sidor
...Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forei'alhers of the hc.mlet fleep. Oft did the harvefl to their fickle yield ; Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke : How jocund rlid they drive their teams afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their flurdy ftroke. Let not ambition... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 sidor
...lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth fhall burn, Or bufy houfewife ply her evening care : Nor children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to th.ire. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield ; Their furrow oft the liubborn glebe has broke ;... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 sidor
...the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How how'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
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